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Items Afloat and Ashore.
Skrmoks.?u One sermon a week is as
?)t?ch a? any divine can preach with credit
tp his reputation, and as much as any con
gregatioaLis likely to digest into practice."
Yet two, end often three, are demanded every
Sunday, and they must be all tip-top
Tgfo*. Wo milk and water?the energies
rr.?t sever Sag; no allowance mads for
trouble, sickness, for rtjind and bedy worn
down from continual labor. If the sermons
are not first-rate, splendid, superb, the xninLttr
is llinncrlit tn Ha t skill p. r full in or.
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Gcaious Fact.?Did my reader over notice
the curioti* fancy that persons not quite rigbt
in their minds have for stripes and chequers,
?r at least for parallel lines! Martin von
?utche)l U80(] to ride a striped pony. I saw
a lunatic in Hanwell sit for hours counting
and playing with the railings. Many insane
persons are fascinated by a cboss-board ; and
any one who has ever had a brain-fever will
retnember the horrible attractions of a striped
wall-paper.?F. Sala.
What Would IIavis Become or us
'(Tukn.-?Some editor says the destiuy of the
world often bangs on the smallest trifles.
At little miff between Charles Bonaparte and
his love Letitia might have broken off a
marriage which gave birth to Napoleon and
the bnttle of Waterloo. To which tho Chicago
Advertiser says : 14 Yes, that's a fact.
Suppose a 44 little miff" bad taken place between
Adam *nd Eve! What then?"
Cure von Thirst.?When at sea on
short allowance of water, and you feel thirsty,
eat a pieco of hard biscuit with a lump of
white shugar. In thirst, the salivary glands
of the mouth are paralyzed, but restore their
action by severe chewing, and immediately
there will be relief. A friend who has been
on shott allowance of water in warm latitudes,
confirms the truth of the above statement.
Ont. Good Turn Deserves Another.?
A favorite rhajjpie, which had been accustomed
to receive its dainty bits from the
mouth of its mistress, ono day perched, as
usual, tin herfdiolcle-, and inserted its beak
btrtween her lips, not, ns it proved, to ro
ceive, but to give or hide, for as ono good
turn deserves another, the grateful bird dropped
an immense green, fat caterpillar .nto
the lady's mouth.
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A Mormon*.?We are told on the most
undoubted authority that there is in this city
a man who lives with two wives, at the
same time, and in the same house ! The
two ladies seem to be excellent friends, and
perfectly satisfied with the arrangement,
while the husband bestows every favor upon
them, taking tberu both with him to the
theatfer concerts, ?fce.?Ar. 1*". J?xj>nss.
Births Extraordinary.?There arc near
Sotuervillc, N. JM three women who have
given birth to eight children within a period
of three mouths. The first presented
her spouse with three children at a birth :
the second, in less than a mouth after, gave
birth to two boys ; nud the third was the
mother of three girls.
Brownuwv's Knoxvillo Whig says that
the mother bank of the Dank of East Tennessee,
in that place, is paying out gold for
all bills payable at Knox villa?for none
others. The fame paper says that the
Ocoee Bank is ono of the safest institutions
in the State.
A man mot a daughter of Edmund Dorr
in one of the streets of Albany, on Saturday
evening, and attempted to place his hand
over her inouth, but she turned her head |
and screamed, and the villain fled, leaving |
a plaster on her cheek of such strength that
its removal brought the skin with it.
Tub " females " of Albany, Athens county,
Ohio, headed by a lady 00 years old, re- i
cently marched into a tavern, kept by a man '
1 t> 1 1 i 1 11.1 1 - . 1
nameu uecKer, ana snmsuea an me nonius, j
jugs, tumblers, ?fec. Becker lias left forj
parts unknown.
The Galena (Illinois) Courier says: The !
night of tho snow storm, a loaded wagon
was left on tho Plank ltoad, a feiv miles from
this city, It was completely covered, and on
digging it out, the snow was found to be full
six feet over the wheels.
I A
drunkard, cdn fined in prison, at Ilarlisburg.
fur breaking into a cellar to get
some liquor, was found dead in his cell next
morning, from having drank M burning
fluid " in mistake for whiskey.
A remarkable instance of longevity is
rucutioned in the Mexican papers?that of a
lady who died at Actotopal at the ago of
139 years.
Gouoii, tho temperance lecturer, is still
lecturing to crowded*,houses in Chicago.
The anxiety is intense to listen to the great
urato..
Mrs. Sarah B. Scott, the. last surviving
daughter of Patrick llenry, died 011 the 10th
inst., at " Seven Island," in Halifax county,
Virginia. She was 77 years old.
Tilie Missouri, Upper Mississippi and Illinois
rivers nre gorged with ice, and tho nav
igatidri suspended.
'BoAltrtiHa in Washington is f?ni<l to he
vorv high this year, l'rohahly there is an
exua charge made for killing waiters.
Soys of thefcote)* in New York, now rerjuirtMheir
employees to wear a uniform,
wlierefrf they may be easily distinguished.
!\ nrLL has been introduced info the Legislalure
of North Carolina M to encourage
and promote matrimony."
Or the 2fl members of tho famous Hartford
Convention, every one has passed to his
gfffr. .. .. , .
Hy eross breeding, a green reee lias been
produced in eomc ol the Southern States.
Witostpextf
H. WVtv to compel I free negroes to leavo the
State fs before the Alabama Legislature.
It costs more to send an ounce le'tor to
Europe tb?? it does to sead a barrel vLdoqr,
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THURSDAY, JAN. 1, 1867.
Thanks.?Messrs. S. G. Courtbxay <fc
Co., Booksellers, No. 9 Broad-st., Charleston,
will please accept our thanks for topics
of a neatly piiutod calendar for 1857.
Sle?t.
Yesterday afternoon we were visited by
quite a fall of sleet. The ground was covered,
in many places, to the depth of an inch.
The old year, after all, seemed determined
to ride out in grand old style.
To Correspondents.
Our correspondent M S." will oblige by
writing his letters one day earlier. Ilis last
did not reach us until after our paper had
gone to press.
We intend making othor extracts from
the letters of our Aiken correspondent.
New Year's GreetingTun
editor of the Eutorprise experiences a
thrill of joy in being able to greet bis patrons
upon the morn of another New-Year. The old
year?laden alike with innocence and crime,
happiness and misery?has passed away, forever.
Last night when the hands of the
clock, that ticks so unceasingly upon the
mautle, pointed to the hour of 12, the old
year died out, but dying left upon the altar
of Time an offering bright and innocent.
To day young Fifty-Seven enter* the calcni
der of years. It rcinaiu-s to l?e seen what
great events will render it memorable?what
great enterprise will date its rise?what Nation's
dawnfall be recorded; all ! may we not
ask, whose lot will it be to have this year,
as a last one, to mingle in the pleasures and
enjoyments of the world ? Wo cannot tell.
Notwithstanding, many kind fiiendahave
beeu called away
"Tojoin the innumerable caravan
That moves to the paie realms of shade,"
and strangers till their places, wo arc glad
to greet you. Wo liavo all had our sorrows
i ititrta ?-wv i-K r> rvc !? *#
V1IWIIIII\<I\<U MIIC1VI |'V-I , lev
lliein l>e forgotten in the offurt to tnnke
light the heart, in order, not only to enjoy
" these times of rejoicing," hut enable us to
bear with fortitude the 44 ills we have," and
those which the year we've entered upon
l will surely fetch us.
We do nol express our heart's full desire
when we wish for all a happy New-Year
and a jol.'y time. May peace, prosperity,
happiness, friends, and every necessary good,
' be the portion of each and every one. We
enter upon the duties of the year with a
firm detctinitiation to spare no effort to
make the Enterprise an acceptable papct.
To deserve the support which has been
| kindly extended to us in times past, shall l>e
our earnest endeavor. All classes are alike
invited to the banquet that will he spread
before our renders during the coming year.
The Farmer, the Mechanic, the Manufacturer,
tho liusiness-Man and Laborer, arc all
urged to extend us their patronage, and we
will strive to desere well their support and
encouragement. *
The Washington Union, of Saturday,
says:
"The message of John Ross, president of
the Cherokee nation, is received. Affairs
are in a prosperous condition ; civilization
progressing steadily, and education receiving
marked attention. He represents the urgent
necessity for providing payment of the na
tional debt, and nn increase of the school
funds, and recommends, as a means of accomplishing
these objects, a retrocession of
the neutral land. Respecting the complaints
against persons connected with tho American
Board of Missions, of tampering with
the slaves, ho says slavery, being recognized
by the lawscf the nation, is entitled to pro|
toction, and the agitation and disturbance of
it bv the citizens of the United Slates, is
1 wholly unwarrantable."
Albert Pike.?It has been recently stated
that Albert Pike, of Arkansas, had received
a fee of 8100,000 in an important
law suit. Since that time lie bar announced
his intention of retiring from the bar altogether,
as his fortune is now sufficient to
I enable him to live at ease. Mr. Pike was
born and educated in the North ; is a near
,.t ?l.~ .1,1 1 1
vmuiB ui me vm uiiuiiiiviir. uiitiver, miu lit
a most remarkable man in many respects.
He can preach, pray and write most wonderfully.
Besides this, he has few equals at
the bar or in the field. II? upsets ordinary
opponents with equal facility, whether the
woapous be logic and law, pistole at ten paces,
or bowie-knives band to hand.
Idlic Observations; bt av Extremely
InLis Man.?To receive well is almost as difficult
as to give well. It is with life as with
colfee, he who would drink It pure must not
drain it to the dregs. A fool in an elevated
position is like a man in a balloon; every*
tgnly appears little to him, and he appears
little to everybody. The author always the
moat appreciated is he who is tbo author ol
I h i# fortune. t a
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Tlroli) " Oui* Cottespondeitfs."
We vontlire to make some extract from
the private letters of a friend, who, for the
crake of health and pleasure, is sojourning
during the winter at the delightful village
of Aiken, S. C. The samo kindness "which
prompted him to write, we feel assured, will
pardon the liberty we have taken in gising
what he has written (bttt which was not intended.)
a place in that portion of our paper
which wo have reserved for the use of
our friends and correspondents.
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Aiken, December 25th, 1850.
My dear Price :?lIaving finished a long
letter to , at an hour too soon for bed,
L took, a bad segar?a tolerable arliclo of
llint luxury is not to bo bad in Aiken?and
not wishing to poison the atmosphere of my
room, I went nnd walked up and down the j
piazza of the hotel, whic!? must be 200 or
300 feet long, and into which the windows
of the ladies' drawing-room look. Here I
walked up and down putting my segnr, nnd
peeping into the windows of this drawingroom
as I passed, looking at the ladies, aud
pitying a sickly-looking young Yankee, who
was doing the agreeable to a dozen women
who sat around, effulgent in all the glory o'
silks and hoops. " llow magnificently," to
use the language of one of your fraternity,
" the women put their clothes on nowadays,"
and how wonderfully does dress,
when arranged by cultivated taste, add to
the charms of even the best nnd most beautiful.
Growing tired of the piazza, I returned,
through a long, dark passage, to ths extreme
end of the back wing of the building, in the
end of which on one side of this passage,
which opens on a turnip patch, is situated
my room, and seating myself in the d^or of
this passage opening upon this turnip patch,
I began to gaze at the stars. It is a solemn
tiling to have 011 your up-turned face the
light of the st'nis, of the old, old stars ; of
the stars which have been shining in Heaven
so many myriads of years; of the stars,
which have lajen gazed upon by so many
millions of human eyes beaming with hope
or dimmed with tears ; of the stars, which
have been worshipped by men, conscious of|
weakness, and vainly seeking in the dark for
t\f fli4* clnifl llws aI.1 /vl.l ? ? - ??
?vij v tuv ??n?io vi viiv vii11 i?iu ovam
which, though they have looked down upon
the vanishing pomp, and power of a thousand
races of fleeting mortals, have, themselves,
known no changes, but shone as serenely
and unchangable upon Abraham
sitting in the door of his lent in Mesopotamia,
as they now shine upon inc. It is a
solemn thing to look np at the stars and reflect
that they will shine as brightly upon
your unconscious dust as they now shine
upon your head ; albeit it may bo illumed
with light of genius and lifted proudly up
with ambitious hopes. Coldly, serenely
shining on from century to century, in their
immutable courses, what wonder is it men
have watched, worshipped, sought to fathom
and fancied their destiny overruled by
the stars. Jtyron who had a soul for all
which is solemn and grand in nature und j
I iu thought, has these beautiful lines which j
you have doubtless much admired and may '
remember more correctly than I do. I quote
without the book and your superior accuracy
must correct mc:
" Ye (tars, which are the poetry of heaven !
If in your bright loaves we would read the fate
Of men and empires, 'tis to he forgiven
Thnt in our aspirations to be great
| Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state
And claim n kindred with ye, for ye are
A beauty and n mistery, and create
In us such love and reverence from afar,
Thnt Fortune, Fame, Power, Life have named
themselves a star."
I have burned out my allowance of can
1 die, and will, therefore, have to defer the
j conclusion of this until to*iuorrow, when,
fortunately, as the stars will not bo shining,
I shall not be expected to pursue that theme
further. ? w, K, e.
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ClI a klk8ton, Dec. 22, 18j6.
Dear Enterprise?At last, after wcoka of
warm and changing weather?one day the
therinoinetej: ranging at forty and the next at
seventy degree*?we have real bracing weather,
attended by rather rharp, cutting winds
from off the Day ; still it is welcomed, after
the disagreeable streets and rainy days of
the post several weeks.
The Commercial Convention adjourned
lost week, at Savannah, without achieving
anything very wonderful, wo believe, though
a ivpaqI inunr fiiiA ( v?
M ?,? vxv >umy M?1V ?VI iliu piVlllVliUIl
of the Commercial interest of the South*
were spoken of. Virginia nnd Georgia wore
more fully represented than any of the other
States?even as many or more than nil the
others included. The number from South
Carolina was very small, nor did we sed
among the names any one to represent the
growing importance of Greenville. This
we are sorry to see, aa it is becoming a place
of acknowledged claims, and as people, too,
\ are opening their even to the fact that there
?# n rather fast young city of that name in
1 tbo npper portion of (lie Sute, render it a
place of tod much' fittpdrtanei to be passed
by, However, H may be Jliwt titers W?r?
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delegates from Greenville, as tho tut which
wo saw was incompleto.
Albert Pike, the western poet, and hero
of many little transactions of business at
twelve paces, paid our city a visit of a few
days iu passing*through. During his stay
he spoke on two occasions beforo the Masonic
Lodges. In Savannah he ulso made a very
savage speech against the revival of tho
slave trade, and, taking the same views that
uro entertained by some of the knowing
onos of our own State, pointed out the folly
and impropriety of the introduction of a
commerce, which, at this late day, is not at
all needed, nor could beof any earthly advantage
to the South ; while, on the contrary,
it would depreciate the value of the slave,
and make the fortunes of the 44 freedom
shriekers" aud 44 Douglassonians " of the
North, by giving employment to their rfliip|
ping. It is a move that is not ?t all Recond;
cd here, nor at any p'ace from which we
| have heard that has once experienced tho
evils of it. We see tho London Times is
giving vent to its wrath at the mere mention
of it, and boldly declares that the combined
powers of Europe would oppose it with their
might, and crush it they certainly would,
and, if uecd bo, they would crush America
with it.
The introduction of this trade is exactly
what England wishes ; for it would not only
immediately bring things to a crisis between
the North and South, but would place the
United States at variance with the worid,
and in this position would bo a much easier
mark for the grudge she owes presumplious
America, and which she is afraid to undertake
herself, but only in alliance with other
powers, and which this opportunity would
j oiler.
The news in regard to certain alarming
| movements in several States out West and
in Florida, was at first discredited, but is
now thoroiurblv confirmed, and nreonnlion
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! ary measures are being adopted throughout
those sections. The papers generally were
wisely cautious in fori tearing to mention it
and make a public thing of it, which would
only have had a tendency to incite insurrectionary
movements where they were not before
thought of. But danger from this quarter
we need not fear, unless at the instigation
of thoso tiendish "freedom shTickers" which
they would willingly attempt.
At a late meeting in Chicago, wo believe,
at which the most respectable classes were
assembled?ladies, as well as gentlemen?
addresses were delivered by some of the
leading fanatics. Fred Douglass was among
the number, and in his speech said that
Southern fathers and mo'.hers should dream
of death and murdered children in their
sleep, of poison in their food, and that deeds
of violence should fill their thoughts by day.
Surely when such sentiments as these are
propagated throughout the land, it is time
for us to be ou our guard.
The city is ratlier lively in tbo way of
I amusements just now. Agnes Uohcitson, j
J the fairy star, and Bourcicault, have been I
j playing, to crowded houses, pieces of the
j latter'a own production, whinji never fail to
call forth bursts of applause. Miss Hubertson,
though a finished actress, has not the ,
foice nor the deep impressive style of Julia 1
Dean IJayne, and actresses of her class, but ;
there is an innocence, a naivete of'manner, j
that appeals direct, to the hearts of the audi
euoe, liourcicHult also is one of llie first ac- I
tors on the American singe. Jn England '
lie and Miss Robertson alias ilrs. Boiircicault
played the snmo pieces upward* of
one huudred consecutive' nights to overflow
: ing houses. There is still another source,
and rather of a different/character. Tho renowned
Christy's Minstrels are here for two
I weeks, playing at the Institute Hal!. Their
| performance needs no praise more than to
say it is enough to call forth smiles from a
lamp-post. Yours, ' S.
A Povk Auotrrixo on a Coitln*.?In
Edinburgh, a few days ago, a respectable family
in one of the quietest quarters of the
city were thrown into mourning by the death
, of one of their number, an elderly ladr. A
i night or two after the cyent a strange noise
was heard at the window of the room where
j the coflin was lying. It seemed like the
, flutteiing of tho wings of a bird against the
window panes; and, when the maid-servant
! appeared at the window, fjr tlie purpose of
raising it to examine into the cause of the
noise, a beautiful white dove flew into the
apnrtraont and alighted upon the lid of the
coffin. It offered no opposition when they
' attempted to secure it, and is now in tho possession
of the relatives of the deceased lady,
who, from the singularity of the circumstances,
have resolved to preserve it carefully.?
Had the event happened in times past, when
superstition held sway, it would undoubtedly
have given rise to some strange imaginings
relative to tho departed.
[Edinburgh Kxpreaa.
J)o You ENVir a Millio-vaih* f?Ye
who are in possession of a " comfortable in
dependence, and arojwt annoyed with the
rise and fall of stock*, listen to the words of
Oirard, the Philadelphia millionaire:?44 I
live like a galley slave, constantly occupied,
and often pasting the night without sleep.
I am Wrapt in a labrvnlh of affairs, and
worn put with caro." ft is as id that John
Jiwob Attar's Ust words were 44 My life is a
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The Carrier's New Year AddressLIkrk
cornea the Carrier of the Knterprise, A
Glad to meet friends everywhere; 8
With swelling heart and beaming eyos, ' U 3
lie greets the bright New-Year^ R
The Christmas days have hurried past, H
While all seemed glad and gay, w
Aud e'er our thoughts are backward cast *
\\r- ? - t i .1 . "... .I'M
\r e greci r nnppter u?ty. l'" a
New-Year comes?new change* too!
And all.fresh plans invent;
Some hope for better times to view, B
ft
.Some past events repent. ^
But I have come with larger views,
With hopes exultant, high, tl
And those who now iuv scroll peruse
Will help mo while I try, *
I watched the little girls and boys,
Throughout the Christmas week; ^
I hearkened to their merry noise, t
And thought their hearts did speak ; v
Their sports 1 witnessed with delight,
And this was all my cheer: ^
I'll strive with all my power and might, t
To wait till comes new-year, r
For well I know my friends will find i
Some comfort that 1 prize,
And each will boar mo in ltis mind ?
The Doy of the Enterprise; ^
For well they know that once a week, i
No matter whnt befalls, . c
He will his friends and patrous seek,
And inHko his usual calls,
To cheer the lonely mother's hours,
With reading rich and rare.
To quell the raging mental powers, ,,
Aud give the husband cheer.
Then surely I will hopo that all i
Will not my prayer disdain, i
That these few hints will never fall *
On listening ears in vain ;
For who would be a Carrier Boy, }
To troad fho village o'er, *
And once a week long hours employ, 1
To reach each patron's door; J
To meet tho rays of Summer's sun,
To feel the Wintry blast, j
Ami then to feel thai every one, a
Would slight his pleas at last 1 '
But past experience cheers his luiud?
Ho know? where friendship lives,
And feels nssured that ho will find
The friends who freely gives.
Our friends Are blessed with health and pence,
And plenty fills their store? *
God grant their comforts may increase, 8
Till they may want no more. [
May every one do as they please, ^
So that they do it tight,
Our town be rid yf hogs and fleas,
Our lamps be lit at night, j
Our sidewalks good and streets kept clean, (
Our clay roads filled with sand,
And every rascal far and near,
Be dtiven from the land. I
May thoso who make, their piggies roam,
And root at neighbors' fences,
Be forced to keep them all at hujnet <
And bring them to lUcit senses.' ,
May Zodoc, Coop, and patrols all,
When rowdies are lot loose, i
Givo each a pleasant, friendly call i
To tho market calaboose ;
May every body look to home,
And mind their business too, (
Then they will never have to roam, ; i
But find enongh to do.
May Church and College soon be free
From WinJet's freezing weather,
And may our longing eyes soon set)
Both inarching* on together. i
With all'my 44 mays,* I hope I may i
Indulge in ono or two ; ...
And hope the words I have to say !
Will not bo lost on you.
May every body?young and old?
May every girl nnd boy,
Not for a moment think it bold
To wish the Carrier joy ; < .
But give liiin what hi? woik demands
A New-Year's present, rare, i
And lie will bless the liberal hands
Throughout the rolling year.
January 1-, 1857. * ,
Intkkcstino AV11.1. Dkoisiokm.? The
Surrogate of Nov Yorlr rrad^ a decision on
Tuesday w in the matter of the estate of Daniel
Hart, deceased," which is of considerable i
importance as setting a point of law in re-1J
lation to mortuary devices. Tho residuary
clause of the will devised all of testator's
residuary estate or properly to his five sis- i
tors, to be divided equally among them.
One ofthe said sisters was thon dead. ThoSur
rogate was Asked to decide whether her share
lapsed or went to hor next kin. He decided
that it lapsed and went to the testator's next
kin. The testator also made bequests to
" his cousin, Paris Foecard," but he bod no
cousin by that name. Parole proof was taken,
specifying that Princella Peocard was
the party designated in the will, and that
the deceased had always addressed said cousin
by the name used in the will. The Surrogate
decide] that the parole testimony
should be Admitted, Reordered the bequest
to he complied with accordingly.
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Fanny IlBnTON.-? A celebrated English actress,,
being hissed in her youth, had boldness
to come before the audience and ask." Which .
do you dislike, my playing or my person P
u ThtJiiUf ing! the playing P' was the call
from ?flf aides. u Well, the playing can be
l>ettewd, but ray person I cannot alter.
Sho soon became the favorite of the pnb
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JUl! ',fH Jill.. 1LLX |
Fat-aiia Matiikw.?FaOw Mathew, the
kpo^k ff Temperance, died at Cork on the
111 JUT4December. Theobald MHtihew wu&
orn at Thomaaiown, Ireland, October IOV
790. lie waa left an orpbah *t an early
?e, Adopted by an .mint, ana educated in
Kilkenny Academy and at Mavnootb. IIo
ordained to the urjeetlujod at.liuU^u
idopting the principle or total abstinence,
e commenced a series of meeting, and noon
wakened llie en tint i.wn of Iihdl nature
* 1& jpUtimW
lie travelledTrora town to town through
ie inland. Ilta-jmrgraw wwwr ir+urrrpti ,
1 march, lie administered the pledge to
liousands at a time; at Jifenagh tp )tyentv *
liousand in one day ; at OalwTiy'a hundred
liousjuid iiU.?co.da>a^ljdt\vecii Galwayunl
.ougnrea 10 nearly two liunnj;eu uipuaano.from
Ireland he went tb Erfglaixl, where
lie people were infected with a corrtepondng
enthusiasm. Thence he came to tho
Juited States, from which he returned in
he autumn of 1851. Ilis labors and tri-*
imphs licro will long ho remembered.?
through nil this Herculean labor he war
onstantly in i\ atate of )>ersQDal poverty.
A'hen ho began his work his "brother was
ho proprietor of a large distillery. lie tup*
>orted Theooahl until his wonderful success
lad ruined the distillery, and reduced the
>wncr to bankruptcy. To moot tho wants
>f the public benefactor the "British Govern r
nent settle*] an annuity of ?300 upon him,
vhich sum was sufficient to pay tho prefhi- *
im upon an insurance policy held by his
ireditors as security for their claims. Sinco
lis return to Ireland, the weight of yenrs
>nd the exertions of long lal?or have coinjelled
his partial withdrawal from public
ife.
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Akrkrt or Supposed AnouTroKfrra.?
I'hird Seigoanl Thomas I'rioe, of tho MountKl
I'olicc, arrested in this city last evening,
n the vicinity of I tray ton street, an individ- |
ial named dames Marshall, who was deliviring
an abolition speech. From his ap>earatico
it was supposed that many imbi itioiis
of Southern red eye fired up hit
Northern feelings, spul he undertook tho reponsibiliiy
of giving to a few little niggers
lis opinions of Southern institutions. They
vero very much amused At him, and when
le was arrested gave three hearty cheers at
lis success ju geltiug lodgings ut tho l'olivo
iurrncks. Another gentleman of the same
tiipo was also lines ted in tiie vicinity oflhe
narkett uud was locked up. They will ho
)uietly sent from the.city to their Northern
ionics, and should ho thankful eacli at havng
escaped r. coat of tar and feathers.
[.SWarmo/i Gcorr/ian.
Tiif.Mi880vhiC6mhiiomi3k.?The " Dred"
irgumenUs are finished in tin? Supremo Colli t,
ind the Washington correspondents nro
|K Ciilating upon thorn. The Tribune corresH?n<lcnt
writes?"The ]>o*ition of the
Jourt on the question is quite goneially tin*
lerstood to bo thus : Messrs. Curtis, of M isacini
setts; Nelson of New York, and Me-oan,
of Ohio, are in favor of the power,
klessrs. Campbell, of Albania; Wayne, of
Jeorgia ; Daniel, of Virginia, are against it.
The Judges whose position is not so well denied
are understood to be Grier, of Penult
Ivania, Catron, of Tennessee, and the
Jbief Justice Tenev. of Maryland." - * i
Saiibatii Schools.?The whole church is
concerned in the prosperity of Sabbath
(chop!*, even in a secular point of view. As
they increase, what is of infinitely greater
importance, knowledge, good order and piety
will intense, lienee it becomes every
Lruo friend of a congregation, as such, .to encourage
the institution, by oec.-uyptpd visit^
by the gift of suitable ^KHjks, which may pass
from the Hablalh school library to a hqjt- g
dred families; by appropriating sums of "
money for incidental jsxpvuses ; by dpfeod-.
iug tlio institution from the u'.tacks of ign<v
rant and wicked men, and earnest prayer to
God.
Iktknsk Cold.?-"the James Iwivor is frozen
at City Point, so us to prevent'tl^e iti-^
gress to and egress from that port. The'
>tenmor Roanoke, which should havo(MiK<|
yesterday for New(York, is ico-bound nt the
* Point." Tho Appomattox is frozen top to
Port "Walthall, ahd between that place and
Petersburg, thero are alternate openings of
water and closings of ice, which, of course^
makes the river, to nil business purposes,
closed. Cold, so intense, has no precedent
in this region, tor many years past, at this
early period of winter.?Petersburg Intcili>'?
gcncer, of Thursday.
A Yi8itor prom IIayti.?The SouOt
Side (Ya.) Democrat, says, that on Thursdnv
" a colored individual, handsome, tall,
aristocratic, military looking, and dressed to
kill, passed throhgh tbf?* ity from the South,
lie was such a darkey as any gentleman
would giro about $1,000 for as a carriage
driver or body servant. On inquiry, lest
he might bo a * runaway 1 coming it stroncr.
ho proved to be a no less personage than the
Duke of St. Thorn, of Xlayti, particular
friend and confidential counsellor of hi* tore
no eminence Emperor Faindin the First,
The Duko it on his way to New York*
Ecijpoks in 1857.?There will be two
eclipses this year, both of the tun. The
first will occur on the 25th of March. It
will be invisiblo in all that part of the U*>*
ted Stales east of tho meridian of Washing*
ton, and partial and visible west of Wasuingle**,
The second is an annual eclipse of
the sun, which will commence on the 17th
of September, at -midnight in the United
States, and, therefore, invisible in this country.
It will be visible in it large portion of^ ^
Asia, a part of Africa, anil the whole of!
Australia.
Da. Movr, the ?debrated surgeon of New
York, lately performed the difficult operation
of tying the carotid artery for the forty^artk
time. He did it without the aft
af spectacles, which he doei hot use, though
seventy-ope years ol ago. Ho is talked <<*
for President of the Academy of Medici no,
?kl Q01ce ho*has once already filled.
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